Oddbean

Are you headed to Culture Shock or interested in learning more about the event? @tyiu was generous enough to create our own IOS app via his Comingle solution. Check out the Cutlure Shock event app with this TestFlight link. 🤙🏻 https://testflight.apple.com/join/CNJstWwxCulture Shock 2024

Excited to contribute to this amazing event, even if I can’t be there in person! Thanks for letting me be a part of it. The URL got mangled a bit. The Culture Shock 2024 iOS TestFlight can be found here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/CNJstWwx Please free to use it and give me any feedback, even if you are not attending. It’s not actually integrated with Nostr, but it does link out to people’s Nostr profiles via your default Nostr client and has a built-in Lightning tipping function via your Lightning wallet app. I’m using this client as a proof of concept to show what @Comingle could be and to help inform my design, which I plan on fully integrating with Nostr.

@Compromised @QW you two inspired me to make the Nostrville 2023 iOS app permanent for posterity sake by publishing it to the App Store. https://apps.apple.com/app/nostrville-2023/id6471229500 It took *only* three rounds of back and forth clarifying misunderstandings with the Apple reviewers due to the Lightning functionality. They even helped catch some onboarding bugs where nothing happens if you tap the “Nostr profile” and “Tip” buttons when you don’t have a Nostr client or Lightning wallet app installed. They now open njump.me and the App Store download page for a Lightning wallet if you don’t have them. These improvements have carried over to the Culture Shock 2024 app, and I’ll do the same for the general Comingle app.

I am excited for a full fledged Nostr enabled social client for conferences. When I was down in Costa Rica a few weeks ago, I swam in a jungle river and talked about conference apps for an hour with a fellow attendee. He's been developing conference apps and the social experiences that comes with them for 20+ years. We talked about how important it is to make connections with fellow conference attendees, but also it's important to keep everyone connected, to continue the conversations, and to make people excited for the next conference. I mentioned Comingle and you, Terry. We need an app like this so we don't have to keep making random Telegram channels. Thank you sir. I can't wait.

💯 This is exactly the reason why I started Comingle in the first place. All the conferences I’ve been to before I discovered Nostr were dull and low-signal. Why? Because it was intimidating to meet new people, I didn’t know anyone who attended, and anyone I met very quickly became forgotten. There’s so many social connections that can be established before, during, and after a conference occurs. That’s what made Nostrica, Bitcoin Miami, and Nostrville so much fun last year for me. You were able to find out beforehand what people were interested in, who was attending, what people were doing during the conference days, keep talking or following each other after the conference is over, and make people feel good enough about the experience so that they want to come back again next year or go to other events with those same people in the future.